Bizarre Patents
Pizza Pie With Concentric Rings of Crust
A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111626 | Method and apparatus for providing statistical event correlation in a network A method and apparatus for providing event correlation in a network are disclosed. For example, the method extracts a plurality of events of interest from a database, and creates one or more event time series from the plurality of events of interest, wherein each of... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111625 | Method for detecting a message interface fault in a communication device In one aspect, a method for detecting the fault of a message interface in a communications device is provided, wherein the message interface comprises at least two layers which communicate with each other, a top layer accesses to the services of the lower layer and ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107381 | Method of performing ethernet gateway switch trouble diagnostics A service provider unit automatically diagnoses problems in an Ethernet network that are associated with layers 1, 2, and/or 3 and determines whether there is a problem associated with an Ethernet gateway switch EGS. Further diagnostics can be performed to determine... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102779 | System and method of detecting and locating intermittent electrical faults in electrical systems Signals are transmitted from at least one transmitter that is positioned in an electrical network. The signals that have been transmitted are received by the at least one single receiver at a single receiver positioned within the electrical network. At the single re... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094570 | Method of transmitting data supporting multiple access There is provided a method in which a second communication station located within a cell region provided by a first communication station transmits data. The method includes generating a hopping pattern between a plurality of orthogonal resources by arranging the pl... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094569 | Failover and failback of communication between a router and a network switch A router is provided. The router includes a primary interface, a backup interface, a processor, and a memory. The primary interface and backup interface may be used to communicate with a network switch. The router may be configured to determine whether the primary i... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094568 | Method and apparatus for enabling auto-ticketing for endpoint devices A method and system for transmitting data corresponding to at least one endpoint device problem in a packet communications network is described. Specifically, an endpoint device detects at least one problem that pertains to the endpoint device. The endpoint device t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089886 | Method and apparatus for detecting and reporting timeout events A method and apparatus for processing timeout events in a packet network are disclosed. For example, the method detects a timeout event by a first network element, wherein the timeout event is generated due to a lack of response from a second network element. The me... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081574 | Monitor device and broadcast radio wave retransmission system A monitor device includes a packet communication device, a report data transmitting device, a communication status determination device, and a transmission error history storage device. The report data transmitting device transmits report data for reporting an error... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072890 | System and method for testing a dynamic communication across a network A network monitor gets a bill of materials for a communication across a network where different communication paths may be established. A bill of materials is a list of hardware/software components that are used to establish and maintain the communication. A request... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068432 | Priority-based network fault analysis A method and system for reducing fault analysis times in a network having a plurality of pollable objects. Poll responses are received from pollable objects, priorities are assigned to each received poll response in accordance with one or more of a received poll res... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064352 | Method for implementing online maintenance in communication network A method of implementing online maintenance in communication network, includes: recording, in any communication device of the communication network, communication data going through the communication device itself when the communication device has detected online a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064353 | Communication device, communication system, and communication fault detection method The communication device has a frame transfer unit that executes frame transfer via the first communication link and the second communication link, a link confirmation frame sending unit, and a return link confirmation frame monitoring unit. The link confirmation fr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064351 | Method for detecting and correcting data errors in an RF data link Methods for detecting and correcting data errors in an RF data link include identifying valid data frames and corrupted data frames by measuring a data corruption level for each transmitted data frame, comparing the measured data corruption level for each corrupted ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059549 | Method and apparatus for supporting network communications using point-to-point and point-to-multipoint protocols Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for interworking a first protocol, e.g., Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), that provides Ethernet carrier-class traffic engineering, with a second protocol, e.g., Virtual Private LAN Service, that emulates l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059548 | Automatic displaying of alarms in a communications network System and methods are provided for presenting to presentation components status information of a communications network having several network elements. One embodiment includes populating a first data structure with status information associated with a portion of n... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059550 | Electronic apparatus and method for detecting loop in electronic apparatus To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily detecting a terminal that forms a loop connection state with a simplified configuration. A control unit counts the number of broadcast packet supplied from a switching hub to a communication unit within a p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054753 | Method and apparatus for determining an influenced range of a fault occurence in a network In a network including a group of proxy servers for processing a signaling protocol for transferring signaling messages through a communication route connecting a pair of user terminals, an abnormal end of a communication session established between the pair of user... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054752 | Synchronous data communication A data packet is provided that includes a synchronization field and an acknowledgement field indicative of an acknowledgement of receipt of a prior data packet. The data packet also includes a response field that includes information indicative of a system fault, a ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050181 | Sliding frame comparator in a network diagnostic device A network diagnostic component that is placed in-line between a first and second node. The diagnostic component is used to perform a comparison operation on any specified portion of a network data frame. For example, the first node may communicate with the second no... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050182 | Network failure detection system, method, and storage medium A system includes, in order to detect a failure occurring on a transmission path through which service traffic is transmitted from a delivery server, a node that is on the transmission path and that monitors the service traffic, and a monitoring server that determin... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050180 | Network path tracing method Systems and methods for gathering troubleshooting information through one or more networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises a switch port configured to receive a frame that has information added by another switch. As the frame traverses the net... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045477 | Smart protection escalation mechanism prevention Techniques are provided for detecting at a controller associated with a physical layer of a network an occurrence of a failure within the physical layer of the network. In response to detecting the failure, the controller sends messages to at least first and second ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045476 | Apparatus and method for managing a network A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive information from a set top box that is associated with an undesired condition being experienced by a user of the set top box where the in... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040813 | Apparatus and method for reduced loading of signal transmission elements An apparatus is provided which includes a common signal node operable to conduct a first signal, a first circuit coupled to the common signal node to utilize the first signal and a signal-handling element coupled to the common signal node. The signal-handling elemen... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036134 | Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation A device enables a disabled timer state for a link aggregation group (LAG) link if a disabled timer condition is determined for the LAG link, and enables a disabled state for the LAG link if a disabled condition is determined for the LAG link in the disabled timer s... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036133 | Efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks. For example, according to an example embodiment, an apparatus adapted for wireless communication in a wireless network may include... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036132 | Systems, devices, and methods for determining network failures Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise automatically generating a trouble ticket responsive to a determined failure of one or more elements of a management Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC). The management PVC can be established between a ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023417 | Failover mechanisms in RDMA operations In remote direct memory access transfers in a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, failures in the nodes or in the communication adapters can produce the pheno... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018859 | Method and apparatus for asynchronous alarm correlation A method and apparatus for providing asynchronous alarm correlation in packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trigger, and performs an asynchronous correlation of at least one root cause alarm with at least one symptom alarm. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018858 | IMS reregistration method and system therefor A method and system in which upon occurrence of a P-CSCF failure, a network sends an IMS reregistration request message to a UE. An S-CSCF or an AS monitors a P-CSCF to detect occurrence of a failure in the P-CSCF. Upon detecting the occurrence of a P-CSCF failure, ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014299 | Method and apparatus for detecting forwarding loops The invention includes a method and apparatus for detecting a forwarding loop at a network element. The method includes determining whether a received message was previously received by the first network element, and, if the received message was previously received,... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014302 | Communication node, communication method, and computer program A communication node includes: a routing information storing unit configured to store, as routing information, node information indicating a succeeding node and a preceding node in a ring network using a distributed hash table; and a routing information updating uni... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014301 | System and method for providing network route redundancy across layer 2 devices Systems and methods are described for providing network route redundancy through Layer 2 devices, such as a loop free Layer 2 network having a plurality of switching devices. A virtual switch is coupled to the loop free Layer 2 network, the virtual switch having two... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014303 | Systems and methods for interfacing with network information collection devices A network device may include logic configured to receive a problem report from a second network device, where the problem report includes event data, determine at least one of an action to perform or whether reconfiguration information is associated with the event d... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014300 | Resource state monitoring method, device and communication network A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource s... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014298 | Delayed service restoration A communication network comprises a service network configured to provide a service over access provided by an access network, and a first access system configured to access the service over the access provided by the access network, detect a loss of the access, mon... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995484 | Communication apparatus, communication state detection method and communication state detection program A communication apparatus including a network controller configured to control communication connection to a different apparatus; and a main controller configured to control state detection of the network controller and data communication with the different apparatu... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995485 | Method and apparatus for providing automated diagnostics of networks A method and system for providing automated diagnostics of networks using multiple physical channels are disclosed. For example, the method receives a ticket indicating a problem and attempts to identify at least one physical channel of the network that is a potenti... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995486 | Method and apparatus for graphically displaying call signaling flows in a network A method and system for graphically displaying call signaling flows for a communications network is described. In one example, a call flow alarm indicating an improper call signaling flow for a call is received. A respective projected call signaling flow associated ... | 08/09/2011 |
